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9 Story Sentence Search Results For "mimentet"
English:
11. A pregnant woman should not look at a rabbit. When her child is born the child will be hare-lipped like a rabbit.
Lenape:
11. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënao chëmamës. Enta wëlahëlat na mwimëntëta kòhshëtune na mimëntët alàshi chëmamës.
English:
12. A pregnant woman should not look at an opossum because the child will look like a opossum.
Lenape:
12. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënaiyo òpinkw èli xu òpinkwinakwsu na mimentët.
English:
13. A pregnant woman should not look at a departed person as the baby's eyes will spasmodically close, it will look like a person already deceased.
Lenape:
13. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënaiyo awèn alalehëlexèt èli na mimëntët wëshkinko xu shëshawëshkinkwe, linakòt awèn mèchi mata ahpi.
English:
14. A pregnant woman should not keep looking at a food which is in sight without eating some because the baby will be cross-eyed.
Lenape:
14. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënamu mehëmichink mata michiwën èli xu na mimëntët ahpimshkinkwe.
English:
froze their hands because that child was really an icicle.
Lenape:
chakahtën unàxkëwoo èli nushhùkòwën na mimëntët.
English:
because several days later all the babies got sick, and finally they died.
Lenape:
èli kèxukwëni wèmi palsuwàk mimëntëtàk, xantki ànkëluk.
English:
he was exposed. When the other children
Lenape:
màmhìchihële. Na yu[ki] takokik mimëntëtàk
English:
Then when her baby was born he grew very quickly.
Lenape:
Na ènta ahpit na mimëntët na shihkànch kshiku.
English:
Suddenly that one Delaware man heard a baby
Lenape:
Wixkawchi na kwëti Lënapei lënu pwëntao mimëntëta
